From: "Phil Payne" 

Netball = Basketball
Rounders = Baseball

Both are played exclusively by girls in the UK.

From a history of Derby (pronounced Darby, as in the hat and the horse-race):

"The Baseball Ground became the permanent home of Derby County in
1895, when the footballing section of Derbyshire Cricket Club decided it
could perform better if it moved from the Racecourse (Nottingham road).

Francis Ley,a local industrialist at the time had introduced the game of
Baseball to Derby after a trip to America in 1889. In 1897 Derby's Baseball
team with Steve Bloomer at second base, won the National Association's
Challenge Cup for the first time. The popularity of football proved too
much and baseball faded into the background."

The club has now moved to Pride Park and the Baseball Ground is housing.  I
lived about half a mile from it for five years or so.  The cricket club
stayed on Nottingham Road and I believe it's still there.


"Gary Britt"  wrote in message
news:44903d9c{at}w3.nls.net...
> Never heard of those sports?  Maybe its something new the liberals have
> started in their continuing efforts to feminize our male population.
>
> Gary
>
> "Tony Williams"  wrote in message
> news:448f440f$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > Gary Britt wrote:
> >> Soccer is a girls sport and mostly as recreational grade school stuff.
> >> We play *real* sports in the USA [...]
> >
> > Netball and rounders?
> >
> > Outside the USA those are only played by little girls at primary school.
> >
> > --
> > Tony
>
>

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